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PROJECT REPORT: HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS
AWARD-WINNING
The new home of the health centre – in the birthplace of the AGA cooker – was Highly Commended in the Design for Adaptation and Transformation category at the 2025 European Healthcare Awards
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he relocation of the Lidingödoktorn Health Centre to a former factory in the Dalénum district of Lidingö, which forms part of the Stockholm archipelago, is turning heads for its innovative and sustainable design. Highly commended in the ‘Design for Adaptation and Transformation’ category at this year’s European Healthcare Awards, the project by White Arkitekter echoes the thoughtful vision and commitment to quality pioneered in Dalénum’s industrial past by the inventor of the AGA, Gustaf Dalén. It reimagines a post-industrial space as a benchmark for sustainability in modern healthcare. In 1904, Dalen, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, invented a cooker that was clean, safe and easy to use. His factory played a signifi cant role in the industrial development of Sweden and of the Dalénum district in particular. Although closed in 2002, the building had been used as offi ces until recently, and this conversion is part of a wider regeneration of the area. Once fi lled with machinery and factory workers, the building’s generous scale and robust structure provided a solid foundation for reuse. Rather than erasing
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this industrial heritage character, the design team chose to celebrate it, allowing the manufacturing past to remain visible in the structure, while giving the interior a new, community-focused role. This sense of continuity between history and present adds depth and meaning to the patient experience.
Several former factories in Dalénum now provide housing, workplaces and community facilities. The preservation and renovation of these industrial buildings has created a new zone, making this area once again a dynamic part of Lidingö. A recent survey by Novus suggested that the service most lacking in Swedish neighbourhoods today is healthcare. In this context, the relocation of the Lidingödoktorn health centre to a newly rejuvenated part of the city is playing an important role in making attractive, convenient and safe places, where residents want to live and work.
A new focus
The site of the health centre has become a focal point locally, as it shares a striking atrium and entrance with a design school, a nursing home and a centre for maternity
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